‘The virgin, ^(D)the daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
^(E)Has shaken her head behind your back!

²² ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high?
Against ^(F)the Holy One of Israel.
^23 (G)By your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And said: ^(H)“By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter the extremity of its borders,
To its fruitful forest.
²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange water,
And with the soles of my feet I have ^(I)dried up
All the brooks of defense.”

²⁵ ‘Did you not hear long ago
How ^(J)I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That ^(K)you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As ^(L)the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

²⁷ ‘But ^(M)I know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.
²⁸ Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore ^(N)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
^(O)By the way which you came.

‘You shall eat this year such as grows ^[a]of itself,
And in the second year what springs from the same;
Also in the third year sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
^30 (Q)And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.
³¹ For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant,
And those who escape from Mount Zion.
^(R)The zeal of the Lord ^[b]of hosts will do this.’

‘He shall ^(S)not come into this city,
Nor shoot an arrow there,
Nor come before it with shield,
Nor build a siege mound against it.
³³ By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,’
Says the Lord.
³⁴ ‘For ^(T)I will ^(U)defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and ^(V)for My servant David’s sake.’ ”